Data Collection

China's local governments are ramping up surveillance efforts with new data collection campaigns to better trace residents' moves in public areas, seeking to curb the coronavirus outbreak but heightening privacy concerns.

A news report reveals that Apple will restrict how apps use internet voice call functionality that currently may allow mobile software to collect data while they run in the background. However now, Apple will ensure that background access be used just for VoIP calls and the two apps that stand to be affected the most are WhatsApp and Facebook Messenger